February 5///, 191S.] Proceedings. ix 



Ordinary Meeting, February 5th, 1918. 



The President, Mr William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., F.LC, 



in the Chair. 



Mr. G. P. Varley, M.Sc, and Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson, F.G.S., 

 were nominated Auditors of the Society's accounts for the Session 

 1917-1918. 



Professor G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., read a paper 

 by Captain Leonard Munn, R.E., entitled "Ancient Mines and 

 Megaliths in Hyderabad." A paper entitled "The Origin 

 of Early Siberian Civilisation" was also read by Professor 

 G. Elliot Smith. 



These papers will be printed in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 19th, 19 18. 



The President, Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., F.LC, 



in the Chair. 



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Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson, F.G.S., exhibited specimens of 

 Planorbis dilatatus (an American freshwater mollusc) recently 

 obtained from the Bolton Canal, near Agecroft. This was first 

 discovered in this canal in 1869, DU t. apparently disappeared for 

 many years. 



Dr. J. Stuart Thomson, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., read a paper 

 entitled "The Occurrence of Cavernularia Liitkenii, Ao//, in 

 the Seas of Natal." 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Mr. L. Stanley Jast read a paper "On the Necessity of 

 a Technical Library for Manchester and District." 



Mr. Jast stated that a true library is a collection of books made 

 productive,, and implies properly constructed catalogues, careful 

 selection of books, and skilled custodians. 



A special library is such by virtue of the act that it covers a 

 limited field. This, in the case of technical books, means the useful 

 arts, which in these days are usually applied science. 



A special collection, isolated from a general collection, loses a 

 good deal of its value. Technology overlaps with pure science, 

 with the fine arts, and with both sociology and history. 



The need for a great technical collection for Manchester, with 

 adequate equipment and staff, is urgent. 



As a nation we have persistently ignored the fact that ideas, 

 whether in the direction of discovery or in that of invention, are 



